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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor, post: 853616, member: 5454&quot;]In answering I want to first say that slabbing is not the Be all, End all solution.</p><p>Slabs are for the most part not airtite. Toning and corrosion can still take place.&nbsp; Crappy stuff also ends up in slabs.</p><p>&nbsp;Having said that- most of my collection is in sets, some complete and some needing completion.&nbsp; I am a set building nut.&nbsp; And there is enjoyment to be gained from that.</p><p>I can say the two tougher ones are the Barber dimes and Barber halves. Neither set is done. And I skipped over the Barber quarters.</p><p>&nbsp;But the slabs are catching up. I started buying slabs just to study them. Just to own one like a conversation piece.&nbsp; It progressed from there to the various different flavors: OGH, old ANACS small white, ANACS blue, NGC fatties, so on and so forth.</p><p>But I find slabs can contain some second rate coins too.&nbsp; I have a PCGS MS64 1881-S Morgan that is very nice.&nbsp; Nice cheek without a lot of hits.&nbsp; But the darn thing has fingerprints on it.&nbsp; So ok I could have returned it.&nbsp; But the strike is so clean I would be hard pressed to find another that nice.</p><p>Thoughts of cracking it out for a dip are tempting.&nbsp; I would then stick the coin where?&nbsp; In a Dansco of course!</p><p>&nbsp;Some collectors I talk with only own slabs.</p><p>Many set builders say that if they were to start all over from scratch they would only buy graded and slabbed coins.</p><p>So yes; I think it&#039;s a natural progression.&nbsp; But the way I am doing it is to get already slabbed coins and not submit my own.</p><p>I always read the &quot;Box of twenty&quot; threads.&nbsp; And yup if I could sell all the whole shebang for what I have into these sets, I would do a PCGS box of 20 and a NGC box of 20.&nbsp; In fact I already started them.</p><p>Then there is the thought of just doing one box of 20 PCGS gold US coins.</p><p>That would be a real space saver and simple to store.</p><p>Don&#039;t ask me why but now I am doing a Canadian large cent set and another set of 1922 to 2010 Canadian nickels.</p><p>But if I could find a way to peddle off everything close to retail without paying a middleman I would definitely start over with just slabbed graded coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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